Brisbane in June 2015: Near-average rainfall with warm nights

Rainfall was near-average in the Brisbane metropolitan area for
June. Warmer than usual nights were recorded overall, however some cold
nights were experienced at the start of the month.

Near-average rainfall across the metropolitan area

Cold nights during the first week of June

Some cool daytime temperatures throughout the month

Average maximum temperatures overall

Much of the June rainfall was recorded during the middle of the
month as an inland trough moved eastwards across the State and
generated a rainband with embedded thunderstorms. The highest totals
were recorded in elevated locations and at coastal sites. Light rain
also fell near the end of the month, resulting in near-average
June totals across the metropolitan area.

Mean maximum temperatures were near-average for the month,
however mean minimum temperatures were slightly warmer than
average overall. There were some particularly cold nights at the start
of the month, where the overnight temperature at Amberley dropped to a chilly
-0.2 °C on the 5th.

Thick fog blanketed the city on the 25th, resulting in major
disruptions to transportation and aviation in the early morning.
The fog slowly lifted by mid-morning allowing operations to resume
around the CBD and airport areas.

Most values are the precipitation in the 24 hours to 9 am on the day indicated.
Days marked with → are part of a longer accumulation, which is shown on the final day.
Values over 100 mm have been rounded to the nearest whole millimetre.
Days marked with - have a rainfall report of zero;
days left blank have no rainfall report (which often indicates no rain fell).

Notes

The Monthly climate summary lists the main features of the weather
in Brisbane using the most timely and accurate information available on
the date of publication; it will generally not be updated. Later information, including data that has had greater opportunity for quality control, will be presented in the Monthly Weather Review.

A climate summary is generally published on the first working day of each month.

This statement has been prepared based on information available at
10 am on Wednesday 1 July 2015.
Some checks have been made on the data, but it is possible that results will change
as new information becomes available.

Averages for individual sites are long-term means based on observations from
all available years of record, which vary widely from site to site.
They are not shown for sites with less than 10 years of record, as they cannot then be calculated reliably.
The median
is sometimes more representative than the
mean
of long-term average rain.

The Rank indicates how rainfall this time compares with the climate record for the site,
based on the
decile ranking
(very low rainfall is in decile 1, low in decile 2 or 3,
average in decile 4 to 7, high in decile 8 or 9
and very high is in decile 10).
The Fraction of average shows how much rain has fallen this time as a
percentage of the long-term mean.